Cyrielle Menguy (GE 2006), ZEBRA GALLERY

I/ Identity:
Cyrielle Menguy (GE 2006) cyrielle@zebra-gallery.fr, Mobile: 0666921814
Website name: ZEBRA GALLERY

II/ Business start-up project:
Size of team: 3
Capital raised: 50 000€
Originality:
•    www.zebra-gallery.com is the first e-art gallery that exhibits and sells designer bags, shoes and jewellery online. More than an e-commerce website, zebra gallery acts as an art gallery and agent to promote and sell products in France created by young designers from around the world.
•    How the site works: the site launches new collections through e-openings (virtual art collection openings on the site)
•    Unique or very limited series products
•    Upmarket, original and designer products for a limited public
Growth prospects:
•    One month after its launch, the company had already outstripped its annual growth prospects. At the outset: 4 designers from Los Angeles, London, Buenos Aires and Tokyo. The aim was to double the number of designers within a year of the launch date … The concept had already created plenty of buzz in the world of design, and today, one month after its launch, zebra-gallery has 10 designers…. and 2 more arriving between now and July.
•    Regarding human resources: we want to hire a webmarketer in the coming year
•    Translate the site into English and Spanish by the end of 2011.
•    Beginning of 2012: extension into Spanish market

III/ What would you like from the Edhec network?
•    More capital
•    To promote the site in the press and in the blog world
•    Discussion and discovery with new designers
•    Special offer code for EDHEC for all Temporary Collections: 10% reduction with the EDHEC code